Cherries
We visited out Dr and he would not put my husband on alpunirol. Hegave him some pain meds to take if a flare up happend and said don’ttake asprin. The very day we came home from the Dr we received ourfirst shipment of Cherry Rx that we ordered from cherrycure.com Hewas still having trouble with his great toe…swollen, purple,painful! This was two weeks ago Thursday. Prior to this, he wouldstart feeling brave enough to have a beer and by the next day or twothe “twinge” and swelling would return. He began taking the juicetwice a day and within a week was walking like a normal person(haven’t seen that in a while) He is now back to his normal beerroutine, eating peanuts (they always set him off) and has no pain. Iknow some of you are going to dispute that something can work as wellas a natural product can, but we are keeping out fingers crossed thatby using this on a daily basis can keep him pain free. I spoke to acouple that purchased this product in July and he has been pain freesince. He has had gout since his 20’s and is now 36.(ok attack away!)
Malia Berthelette on July 5th, 2007
No attacks from me Pam.
I also added black cherry extract to my diet for a while, along with atwice a day supplement that was intended to help with gout that includedcelery seed extract and some other things I don’t recall, and a coupleof liters of water a day. And this combination was helpful for me. Ican’t say which was the most efficacious, but I suspect the water wasthe key ingredient. Either way, I am a big proponent of simple naturalapproaches first.
If gout is chronic for someone, and these natural approaches haven’thelped, then I’ve heard allopurinol becomes pretty much mandatory, toavoid damaging the joint permanently. This seems reasonable to me.
There are other supporters of natural approaches on this list too.We’re just a little more quiet than some.
(can’t believe I saidthat!)